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scratch along

VERB
  1. manage one's existence barely
    I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary

How To Use scratch along In A Sentence

  • Gandhi said that he was working for winning Swaraj ‘for those toiling and unemployed millions who do not get even a square meal a day and have to scratch along with a piece of stale roti and a pinch of salt.’
  • He was working ‘for those toiling and unemployed millions who do not get even a square meal a day and have to scratch along with a piece of stale roti and a pinch of salt.’
  • A few of them earn quite well, but most scratch along putting in long hours and earning no more than average wages.
  • That noise is only apparent when you play 78s on an electrical pickup, which amplifies the scratch along with the music.
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